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ERIC Number: EJ217015
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1979-Jan
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Chunking and Consolidation: A Theoretical Synthesis of Semantic Networks, Configuring in Conditioning, S--R Versus Cognitive Learning, Normal Forgetting, the Amnesic Syndrome, and the Hippocampal Arousal System.
Wickelgren, Wayne A.
Psychological Review, v86 n1 p44-60 Jan 1979
The relationship between current information processing and prior associative theories of human and animal learning, memory, and amnesia are discussed. The paper focuses on the two components of the amnesic syndrome, retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia. A neural theory of chunking and consolidation is proposed. (Author/RD)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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